11 Big Name Actors Who Ruined Good Horror Movies

Trading on the popularity of the MCU and similarly interconnected film series, Universal boldly attempted a united Dark Universe a few years back, bringing together all of their monster movie properties, including Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Invisible Man and, of course, The Mummy.

Envisioned as the flagship title in the series, The Mummy was meant to make us all forget the progressive disaster that was the Brendan Fraser-starring, early-noughties Mummy flicks, and usher in a new era of ultra-cool, super-synergy films with a strong action-adventure backbone. And who better to lead the charge than Mr ultra-cool, super-synergy himself, Tom Cruise? Anyone. Literally anyone would have been better.

Cruise brought star power, sure, but with the big man comes his big bill and big commercial baggage, not to mention an insatiable desire for stunt-based action that should have stayed where it began -- in the Mission: Impossible franchise. His very presence and booking corrupted what could have been a promising start to a new Dark Universe, placing the emphasis on exposure at any cost, rather than the kind of smaller scale storytelling and ingenuity that 2020's standalone The Invisible Man was built around.

Ultimately, Cruise helped torpedo the new franchise, leading to the cancellation of every other planned entry.